TRANQUILLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tranquilly mean? 

• TRANQUILLY (adverb)
  The adverb TRANQUILLY has 1 sense:

1. without emotional agitation

  Familiarity information: TRANQUILLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANQUILLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without emotional agitation

Context example:

tranquilly she went on with her work

Pertainym:

tranquil (not agitated; without losing self-possession)

 Context examples 

I persuaded myself that, unequal though we were in years, she would live tranquilly and contentedly with me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One sudden and desolating change had taken place; but a thousand little circumstances might have by degrees worked other alterations, which, although they were done more tranquilly, might not be the less decisive.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Every thing was too recent for gaiety, but the evening passed tranquilly away; there was no longer anything material to be dreaded, and the comfort of ease and familiarity would come in time.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And yet it is said the Rochesters have been rather a violent than a quiet race in their time: perhaps, though, that is the reason they rest tranquilly in their graves now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then turning away towards any or all of the rest, he tranquilly said, “Mr. and Miss Crawford were mentioned in my last letters from Mansfield. Do you find them agreeable acquaintance?”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There will be so little to do that with Lotty to run my errands and help me here and there, I shall only have enough work to keep me from getting lazy or homesick, answered Meg tranquilly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her own fortune she had taken care to secure; and when her mother died—and it was wholly improbable, she tranquilly remarked, that she should either recover or linger long—she would execute a long-cherished project: seek a retirement where punctual habits would be permanently secured from disturbance, and place safe barriers between herself and a frivolous world.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I went on with my day's business tranquilly; but ever and anon vague suggestions kept wandering across my brain of reasons why I should quit Thornfield; and I kept involuntarily framing advertisements and pondering conjectures about new situations: these thoughts I did not think to check; they might germinate and bear fruit if they could.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)